Usually yourself, you'll notice in a couple of weeks from now when you revisit your code.
Who wrote this shit?
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#52Feel like there has been increasingly more cuss / inappropriate words showing up on top page of HN. I recommend HN to my kids. Not that they are not exposed to these words online but I would rather not come this from their parent. Not sure how to feel.
I’m not worried about my kids seeing curse words. I am concerned about the downward pull normalizing unprofessional writing has on my profession.
Does it make our whole environment less professional? Does it influence us to be unprofessional in other parts of our craft? Do outside observers view us as less a profession because of it?
I don’t know the answers but I certainly worry about it. Though perhaps I’m just aging out of this audience.
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#53Nothing can be more precise.
I once had a complicated codebase and had a extremely friendly and downright great person walking me through that. There was some things that bothered me (of course - entry level and dunning kruger). But I never uttered a word, the dev was so technically competent and overall personable guy, I tried my best not to be a jerk. He might have his reasons because we sometimes get lazy yet the contribution we make goes beyond that day and stays forever in the codebase.
That day I learned that, soft skills is the most important thing when it comes to interacting in a team. Suppress your feelings and think of the other guy. See beyond the code.
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#54Feel like there has been increasingly more cuss / inappropriate words showing up on top page of HN. I recommend HN to my kids. Not that they are not exposed to these words online but I would rather not come this from their parent. Not sure how to feel.
Agree, the overuse of a word devalues its meaning. It shows certain lack of imagination as well.
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#55Working for a startup I at least say it in a different way. 'It might be trash, but it's running and generating millions of dollars of value'.
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#56if current you isn't furious with previous you, you are doing development wrong
previous you laid the groundwork for the work current you is doing. be kind. :P
if current you is always considering future you, then previous you will no longer be the bad guy when future you becomes current you.
tl;dr: pay it forward to your future self.
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#57I always try to approach all code, even my own code as “lets improve this”.
I tell the junior developers to “Write code like you have to come back in a decade with no context”
When mentoring I also suggest the most important quality is a “think skin and an open mind”.
Your code always sucks. It’s a time -vs- constraint issue as the author mentions. As context changes, code must adapt. That’s why I’m not worried about AI any time soon.
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#58Like the old joke:
Debugging is like a murder mystery where you're simultaneously the investigator, the victim, and the murderer.
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#59Did this in a startup, turned out to be the CEO's code and he was not happy. Not everyone understands the traditions.
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#60I'm in a constant state of this in the codebase I inherited. The previous solo front-end developer was the manager of R&D so he couldn't be fired easily, he was the only person willing and sort of able to do front-end (PHP + JS/Dojo), he was super productive (most code was written in 2012/2013), but not a very competent or self-critical developer. Think a back-end that concatenates XML into a big global string over t…
I'm talking out of my ass here, but it doesn't sound like you are trying to rewrite it, but rather refactor it in place. This often takes much longer than a proper rewrite in my experience.